Chatshow - Kings Of Confusion (EP)

I swear its deliberate.

You go to Tescos, you spend over £50 and you get a time-limited, one-use voucher for 5p off every litre of petrol you buy.

Great. This offer has been very popular round my way of late - both with Tesco and the punters.

Trouble is.

There is only one Tesco round here that sells petrol so everyone uses their vouchers there.

So what do Tesco do?

In order to reduce the number of staff that look after the garage, shop and forecourt (to 1 apparently!!), they make more of the pumps 'Pay At Pump Only'. (Save you going into the shop you see)

But of course, you can only use the voucher if you actually go into the shop and pay at the till.

Voila! I give you massive queues at the petrol station full of grumbling consumers sat slowly simmering in order to save their 5p-off-a-litre and an overworked and underpaid attendant who is unlikely to see a break before the end of her shift.

Another ounce of control over your life is wrested from your grasp, another five minutes of your life is spent in the pursuit of profit.

Like I said, deliberate.

When I got to the pump at the end of the queue I had chosen and saw it was 'Pay At Pump Only' I got back in my car and drove off in disgust. I exercised my consumer rights and decided to contribute to some other petrol company's vast profits.


Chatshow - Kings Of Confusion (EP) (Federation Records FED008-12 1987) 320kbps

1. Kings Of Confusion
2. Reach
3. Eye To Eye Contact (Live)
4. Western Way (Live)

Death to the supermarkets - pwd: c4ctusm0uth